Met Office scientist Emily Carlisle said: “Whereas many will bear in mind the impactful moist and windy climate from Storm Éowyn, it’s a mark of how unusually brilliant different days had been that January 2025 will go down as one of many sunniest on document for the UK.
“We mainly noticed this on account of frequent excessive stress over the UK, bringing clear skies for a lot of but in addition under common temperatures with little cloud to lure any heat close to the floor.”
European Copernicus local weather service confirmed the worldwide imply temperature to be 1.75C hotter than they had been earlier than the economic revolution. It is a 0.1C improve on the temperature document from final yr.
Dr Friederike Otto, a local weather scientist at Imperial School London, advised Sky: “This January is the most popular on document as a result of international locations are nonetheless burning big quantities of oil, gasoline and coal.”
A UK warmth map for January
Met Workplace
